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

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.

The way to do well is to do well.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.