Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

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

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

America is not what's wrong with the world.