A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.