I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.