Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

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.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

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