We Can't Let Others Judge Information For

The Youth Thing Never Really, From My Vantage Point, Slowed Me Down. I Think The Harder Audience For Me To Gain Acceptance From Was The Career Diplomatic Corps That Worked With And For Me In The Africa Bureau.

I Am Straight Forward; I Am Not Manipulative; I Am Not Two-faced. And I Think That That Has Served Me Well In All Of My Roles, Particularly As A Diplomat, Because People Knew If I Said Something, I Meant It. If I Said No, I Meant No, And If I Said We Could Make This Work, We Would Make It Work.

Focus On Something That Stirs Your Soul, It's Hard To Excel At Anything That You Don't Love.

The United States Of America Is The Leading Power In The World. Our Friends And Our Adversaries Respect Us In Large Measure Because They Know That We Are Steady. We Are Fact-based. We Are Serious.

We Have To Know Who We Are And Know What We Believe.