The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their oil on weapons, as opposed to education, as opposed to healthcare, as opposed to food, as opposed to roads, as opposed to clean water. It is really sinful, a crime, what Saddam Hussein has done with the wealth of the Iraqi people over the last 30 years.

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.