Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.