I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.