Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

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

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.