You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

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.

I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.