The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune... And so rather than finding fault with what Spain has done by being aggressive in the war on terror, this should redouble everyone's efforts to go after terrorist organizations of any kind... Terror has to be brought to an end.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.