Today he expresses his aspiration as something that might happen later rather than sooner.
"I wish we had one guy with 10 percent of his vision and his aspiration, " he said.
Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
The president summarized the need to change how we hire, engage and develop employees and his aspiration to make government service cool again.
His aspiration, endorsement and influence scores now all rank among the top 100 of the 2, 900 celebrities in the Davie Brown Index, which measure consumer perceptions.
There was a little less enthusiasm for the more esoteric section of the speech that dealt with his core theme: aspiration.
Also striking was an altogether more personal choice - to stop sounding like the man from Notting Hill - modern, liberal and metropolitan - and instead to highlight the values of a boy from Berkshire who believes in hard work, aspiration and in spreading the privilege which his upbringing gave him.
His party's tally fell well short of his associates' target of 40%, let alone Mr Berlusconi's own aspiration of 45%.
"People have looked at this show and seen a capability and an aspiration that they would not have expected from us, " he said during an interview in his stark white and frill-free office on the 21st floor of the company's 30 Rock headquarters last week.
"Today, in 2010, the aspiration of any patient, our aspiration in the hospital, is to ensure that any chronic patient, when possible, is with his community, at home, " Dr Shlomo Noy, director of rehabilitation at the hospital, told Israel Radio.
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