If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

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

They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.