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.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.