I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.