Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

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.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.