It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

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.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.