The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

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

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.