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

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

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 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.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.