One thing that our [British] leaders don’t do, potential leaders don’t do, is self-deprecation. You can get away with anything in America if you use self-deprecation. And that’s not a technique that’s used here as often as they ought to, really.

One thing that our [British] leaders don’t do, potential leaders don’t do, is self-deprecation. You can get away with anything in America if you use self-deprecation. And that’s not a technique that’s used here as often as they ought to, really.