Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

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

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