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

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

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

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.