Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.