If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.