We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.

I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

No on should pass an American in uniform without saying Thank you, we are grateful. Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.