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.

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.

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