The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.