In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

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 only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.