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

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

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

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.