Experts often possess more data than judgment.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

There are a lot of bigger issues we have to be worrying about with respect to our relationship to China, and the longer they drag out the situation, the more difficult it is to get this relationship back on track.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.