Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.