Have a vision. Be demanding.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.