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

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.

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.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.