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

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.