Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

automatic scholarships to Niger Delta indigenes so as to give them higher levels of competence to enable them compete for higher level jobs in the petroleum industry.