The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.
We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done. . . you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself. . . which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.
Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.