Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.

You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.