Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what extent Saddam [Hussein] was trying to convey an incorrect picture to us.

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.