Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it.

Generally speaking, I resolve to change my life on average maybe thirty to forty times a week, usually at about two a.m, drunk, ore early the next morning, hungover.

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.