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From centuries back to the present, the world has seen across countries multiple leaders who were decisive, even ruthless, but without acting and talking like a thug, an oaf, or a street-corner whore.

There are leaders who are born with, or through effort and training acquired, eloquence--the kind have the choice of having extended and unscripted exchanges with an audience, whether foreign counterparts, ordinary citizens, opponents or the press. By contrast, there are individuals who do not have such gifts (whose gifts are in other forms)--all the more reason to stick to prepared statements and brief Q&As.

Winston Churchill, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Lee Kuan Yew, Kakuei Tanaka, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, et. al.--none of them can be accused of weakness, and none has ever been accused of talking like an uneducated ill-raised fool.