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

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

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general, people think that you know everything. You think yourself that you have become omniscient and omnipotent. Be careful, because people want to do everything they can to please the general, and you need to guard against this.

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.