Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

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

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.