Change Doesn't Happen With People Sitting On

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 Blunt Sometimes; I Am Diplomatic Sometimes; I Am All Things In Between. Abrasive, You Know, I Guess It's In The Eye Of The Beholder.

You Have To Make Change.

I've Taken My Knocks Here And There, But I Believe My Intentions Are Good. Doesn't Mean Everything I Do Is Perfectly Executed Or I Don't Make Mistakes. Of Course I Do.

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.