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

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.

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.

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.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.