It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.

It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

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

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.