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.

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

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.