Gergen Quotes

#1. You know how Bed Bath & Beyond sells those white noise machines that help you sleep? And they usually make ocean noises? I want one that's just David Gergen gently muttering about the economy.

Jessi Klein

#2. An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

Sonny Chiba

#3. At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

David Gergen

#4. Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Will Smith

#5. One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

David Gergen

#6. Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

David Gergen

#7. I think there's some generational difference between some of the older members of the press and this younger president [Bill Clinton]. I think the older members are not quite on the same wave length, and in general. I think it's been very devastating to the president.

David Gergen

#8. Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.

David Gergen

#9. I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

John Lydon

#10. We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

David Gergen

#11. A man that refuses to look beyond his comfort zone lacks knowledge".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#12. It's easy to confuse motion with progress.

David Gergen

#13. For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Suzanne Somers

#14. Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

David Gergen

#15. If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

David Gergen

#16. We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

David Gergen

#17. Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

William McDonough

#18. A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

David Gergen

#19. We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

Luc De Clapiers

#20. Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

David Gergen

#21. I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Francesco Clemente

#22. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

Daniel Berrigan

#23. How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

David Gergen

#24. The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

David Gergen

#25. Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. - HOWARD THURMAN

Christopher Gergen

#26. When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

David Gergen

#27. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#28. With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

Frank Keating

#29. We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

David Gergen

#30. There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

David Gergen

#31. Nothing is real unless people agree that it is.

Mary Gergen

#32. Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

David Gergen