Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.