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

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.

I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.