My theory has always been, you put your head down and work hard, and good things happen.

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.Â

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It’s to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don’t be consumed by the job or you’ll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world – family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.