Premise:
"It can bring balance and fulfillment to our lives, while providing real leadership to some who may need motivation more than money."
Hypothesis: Leadership can provide motivation with gifts and recognition.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"To read them is to encounter a mind at war with itself and the world (and ready to go to war with his critics, as any number of exchanges over the past quarter-century will show)."
Hypothesis: Any number of exchanges in the past quarter-century shows that, to read them is to confront a mind ready to go to war with his critics.

yes

Premise:
"I am pleased to be here today to discuss the essential actions that the federal government needs to take in order to manage its most important asset-its people, or human capital."
Hypothesis: The people, or human capital, are not the most important asset to the federal government.
no