I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

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

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.

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.