When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.