Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.