Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.