Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.