Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.