Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.