Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

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

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.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.