Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger