Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.