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

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

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?'