Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

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.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.