Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.