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.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.