Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.