Remember where you came from.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

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

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.