Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

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.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.