The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.

A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'