Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
