Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.