someone else wishes you to say. In order to do that, you have to know what you wish to say -- and in order to do that, you have to be educated in a certain way. This does not mean going to particular universities; rather, you have to have read an enormous amount. For example, in most journalism schools -- which are highly relevant in all of this -- people are essentially trained as if they were technocrats, whereas what a journalist really needs is a very thick skin and -- even more importantly -- a very strong ethical core. The ethical core is built on reading an enormous amount, and on understanding the nature of political battle -- intellectually and ethically. For within two weeks of getting your first job, somebody is going to come to you to try to get you to change your story -- because you are insulting their advertisers, insulting the owner, or something of that ilk. If you do not have that ethical core, then you cannot write the appropriate article. The same thing goes for people going into politics. The core of a great political leader is not cleverness; it is ethics! That is why, when you have great leaders, it almost does not matter whether they are to the right or left of centre -- provided that they have an ethical core. So de Gaulle -- I did my PhD on de Gaulle -- would, of course, make mistakes. But he knew