Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.