If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

Leadership is solving problems.

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

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.