If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.