Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude