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.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

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.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.