Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.