He is also bad at the crucial job of building bridges with the leaders of Europe's governments.
At a time when peace is failing in many societies, UNESCO Director-General stressed the responsibility of all to defend human dignity by promoting quality education for all, building bridges of dialogue for respect and tolerance, and giving all individuals the capacity to fulfil their aspirations.
The glitz and the glamour may have faded from the wonderful experience of Miss America, but my commitment to raising awareness about autism and building bridges of acceptance grows stronger each day -- especially after I read e-mails, Facebook posts or tweets from the people who have supported my journey.
King frequently invoked the importance of building bridges between people who orient around religion differently.
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This is something that is significant in terms of building bridges to other things.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said the tolls were set by a formula to repay the cost of building the bridges.
But this is nothing new to the fair trade sector, says Helen Ireland, of Cafe Direct, which has long made a virtue of building bridges between producer and consumer.
And I think the government should help us -- should help us in fiscal policy, should help us in tax policy, because a reinvention like you talk of the infrastructure of building bridges -- but we got to build up banks, we've got to build our technology.
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His state government increased school enrolment, taught illiterate adults to read, raised the state university to national stature and brought Louisiana out of the horse-and-buggy era by building lots of new roads and bridges.
But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.
More than a mere matter of building roads and bridges and increasing access to cheap energy, the WPA was about restoring a collective spirit, a shared stake, in constructing the sinews of a more competitive, prosperous country.
Instead, much of it has gone into construction projects such as building bridges, with little thought of the likely returns.
But the government would sure have one heck of a time building roads and bridges (even bridges to nowhere) without countless very successful businesses over time.
The traditional design and practices for building these bridges combine the use of wood, traditional architectural tools, craftsmanship, the core technologies of beam-weaving' and mortise and tenon joints, and an experienced woodworker's understanding of different environments and the necessary structural mechanics.
Let's reward small business by increasing our infrastructure spending, laying a new foundation for an economy for the future, building the highways and bridges and railways of tomorrow.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
Maybe instead of waiting for someone to part the waters for us, the other 99% of us need to get real and start building some bridges.
And then she was a woman meeting dignitaries all over the globe, a mother-of-the-bride and a leader building more bridges than we knew we had lost.
Tell Congress to get past their differences and send me a road construction bill -- (applause) -- so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports. (Applause.) I mean, think about it.
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Members have been hard at work building bridges between residents and law-enforcement officers, and some of them will be helping the social workers and lawyers when the centre opens its doors.
The Veterans Jobs Corps is designed to put veterans to work building infrastructure such as roads and bridges, similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.
Those costs get paid by increased premiums for the people who do buy insurance, or they get paid for through socialized costs and claim our tax revenues and come at the expense of other things that people might want to do, like building roads and bridges.
NATO, especially when there are other organisations that can serve as umbrellas for building the bridges and co-operative arrangements in Eastern Europe that Mrs Albright writes of.
There are short presentations in the faith centre, we hear from the Lancashire Council Of Mosques and from The Bridge in Burnley where young people, inspired by Building Bridges, are initiating dialogue amongst the faiths.
So, although this week has been about building bridges, there is still clear blue water between Europe and America on a number of important issues.
The government seems prepared, belatedly, to start building bridges to parties such as the Democratic Left, which supports a reform, not abolition, of income tax.
We know it means building the infrastructure, the roads and bridges, and manufacturing the new products here in the United States of America that create good jobs.
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