“Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.”

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

With the press there is no ‘off the record.’

If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.

Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Find a new way to make it work, try a new strategy, challenge yourself to take a risk.

We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

I like things that involve skill and I love anything that’s a bit of a challenge.

You’ll keep believing in toxic love and relationships until that one person comes and challenge all your beliefs.

As women, we all face our own unique challenges, but we stand together on these steps today as a symbol of our determination and our commitment to progress.

As women, we all face our own unique challenges, but we stand together on these steps today as a symbol of our determination and our commitment to progress.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.