Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.