The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.