Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.