There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.