They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

With the press there is no "off the record.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.