The importance of being a really good communicator. A truly great leader an iconic statesman is able to express ideas that call people to greatness in very simple straightforward ways, he says. If we want to be truly influential people who are you know active in politics we got to learn to do that right? We care about things and those are the things that you should care about to because that's what politics is supposed to be it's supposed to be a position of service to the people not a position of glory to yourself according to Obama.