Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

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

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.