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

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.

Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.