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.

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.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

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