Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

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.

It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.

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.