"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, and understanding. To these must be added the utterly essential quality of humility."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"I'm not a politician. I'm a general who happens to be President."

"The real problem with the world is not that it is a bad place, but that it is a good place with bad people in it."