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In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.