Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.