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.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.