Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

If every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round.

[In Washington, thousands of people marched in remembrance of the attacks and in tribute to troops fighting overseas.] I wish we could say ... that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks, and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.

We are seeing history unfold, events that will shape the course of a country, the fate of a people and potentially the future of the region.