It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

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.