When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.