Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.