How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.