Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.
I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.