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

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

The walls of the school can't stop the education.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.