"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all."

"Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."