If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

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

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."