I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.