Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.