Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.