Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

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

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

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.

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

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.