If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.