So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

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.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.