But I certainly never gave the president a briefing with the impact that one would have had you seen the photographs or the video. I mean, let there be no doubt about that. He was just as blindsided as the Congress and me and everyone else.

He certainly is the secretary-general and he has a voice and a role. On the other hand, until President Bush went to the U.N., the U.N. was quite happy with the way things were,

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.

We fully intend to find them and chase them to the ground and root them out, ... We certainly intend to find (bin Laden) and we're doing everything humanly possible to do that.

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 bottom line is the treaty is designed to not have ballistic missile defenses, and the president has decided he wants to have ballistic missile defenses, and we are proceeding on an R and D [research and development] effort to get us to point where we can have ballistic missile defenses.