Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.