The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

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

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?

Remember where you came from.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.