Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.