-: One of them is just how you deal with people.
But where I've been, mostly politics, law, government,
and law in particular relating to politics and government.
You need more than simply to know the law
or know the facts and to work hard.
You also have to have a kind of sense of things.
There is such a thing as a political sense
and that matters not just in politics,
but in an office of any sort or any workplace.
And just in dealing with people in the world.
And sometimes I'll get young people who'll come to me
and they're interested in working in government
or getting involved in campaigns,
and then I'll say to them,
oh, are you a republican or a democrat?
And they'll say, I don't know, or whichever.
I say, you come back when you've figured that out
because you need to know.
You need to know what you believe,
you need to know what you can support
and what you can't support,
and you also just need to be able to read people.
In most of my jobs, there were moments where I had to
talk to multiple groups,
some of whom were decidedly on one side of an issue,
and some of whom were decidedly on another side.
And I had to speak to them honestly and consistently,
but not in the same way.
I needed to know my audience,
to see what is important to them,
what are the points that I oughta emphasize with them.
How do I indicate to them that they can trust me.
And there are people who are brilliant
who just don't have that.
And I wish them luck, but I don't wanna hire them.
And that's something you can learn to a point,
but in some ways, it's almost like athletic ability
or musical talent.
You have to have it.