The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

I served 40 years in government, and I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always said if a president asks you to do something, you have to consider it. But I am in no way interested in returning to government. But I, of course, would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me.