There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

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

It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.