Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

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

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.