I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their oil on weapons, as opposed to education, as opposed to healthcare, as opposed to food, as opposed to roads, as opposed to clean water. It is really sinful, a crime, what Saddam Hussein has done with the wealth of the Iraqi people over the last 30 years.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.