Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.