It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

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 takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.