You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

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.

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.