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

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.

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 can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.