(Supporting troops) is important because they don't have places to go. ... They need people thinking of them.

It's possible that some people are thinking that the ground troops will face almost no casualties, as happened in the Persian Gulf,

We were thinking of our troops, the people in Iraq, Americans. We wanted to prevent innocent people from being killed. We wanted to make visible the truth of war. We were called by our faith, the law and our moral beliefs to peacefully protest the war.

I don't think we expected it to that degree. When you have so many people thinking to leave, that's not a positive thing for the overall economy.

Anytime you encourage critical thinking you risk offending somebody, ... ... I think the basic idea of tenure is to shelter people from political ups and downs.

He's the one that kind of rallies the troops together, gets people motivated, lays out sort of the theme on how to focus in on large, medium and small business units. And so he really is the person that charges the whole organization.