My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.