[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

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.

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

My weapon is literature

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.