They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.