Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.