Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Get mad, then get over it.