The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.