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There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

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.

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

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy...

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner...

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

I consider myself a Republican.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

I have instincts.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many...

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

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