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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.
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We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
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As they say down South, he was a hard dog to keep on the porch.
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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.
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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Born:
May 9, 1942
Died:
July 10, 2025
(aged 83)
Bio:
David Richmond Gergen was an American political commentator and presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
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