Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Take, for example, some of the people at Enron, ... It should be that you are developing your leadership skills throughout your education.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs