You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

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

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.