We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

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

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.