Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

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.

The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.