If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Your Purpose Should Dictate How You Spend Your Time

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.