And if I reflect on that time and I reflect on the early years, the first lesson was: you can learn from every experience and everything that you do.

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But the lesson from recent experience in America and Britain seems to be this: if you want to get the better of your unions, it helps to be on your knees from the start.

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What experience has especially challenged and pushed you and what key lesson did you take away from it?

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The third lesson from the Goldstone experience is that people make up governments and people make policies.

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This brings us to the second lesson of the Times article, specifically, and the experience at the UN generally.

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