Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

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.