You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

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