I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

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.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.