For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

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

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'