The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

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.

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.

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.