The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.