There are a lot of bigger issues we have to be worrying about with respect to our relationship to China, and the longer they drag out the situation, the more difficult it is to get this relationship back on track.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Let me blow that up for you again.

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

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.