Electing someone who is not a great politician is like having surgery done by someone who is not a great surgeon.

Find what satisfies someone and you have a deeper way to motivate them.

Effective leaders know how to be less hammer and more Swiss army knife.

When did politicians move from visions to issues? When did they go from being leaders to managers?

[Still, such a idea is political dynamite.] The politics are impossible, ... Politicians do this at their peril.

I think a lot of it is just politicians playing politics in an election year, but at the end of the day I think you'll see the deal go through. This is the year 2000 and that means we live in a global telecommunications industry. So if the United States wants to participate in that, then they'll let this deal go through.