You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.