Hadley, on Iraq:

"The president said we need to make changes. Some of those changes are going to be significant changes."

I observe how this implies that most of the changes will be insignificant. Deck chairs, if you will. Another interpretation is that Bush will simply cast them as OBE:

... provisions that he can argue are already being implemented ...

I collect these kinds of words and phrases:

"a new way forward" [as opposed to merely sideways]
"as the president has said, cut and run is not his cup of tea" [he is rather quite partial to the Kool Aid]
"weeks, not months"

Other top officials, including Cheney and Rumsfeld, said the war would last "weeks, not months."

"laundry list" [translation: Rumsfeld in listmaking mode again, on a dreary Saturday morning]
"the right guy" [translation: search for replacement still in progress]
"ambitious" [translation: broken, hopeless, naïve]

See also: Amid Hints Bush Will Change Policy, Clues That He Won’t

From Bush's weekly radio address on Saturday, I liked this:

"[Maliki] wants to show the people who elected him that he's willing to make the hard decisions necessary ..."

Any chance we could catch Maliki making the same comment of Bush?

Our goal ... is to ... build a country that is united, where the rule of law prevails ...

"Amazon eats their own dog food"
"We're adopting the Microsoft methodology to eat your own dog food"
Black LA firefighter recalls how co-workers served him dog food

Kerry, in 2004: I regret to say that the President, who called himself a uniter, not a divider, is now presiding over the most divided America in the recent memory of our country. I've never seen such ideological squabbles in the Congress of the United States. I've never seen members of a party locked out of meetings the way they're locked out today.

The Bush Administration, believing that the treatment of the detainees was a matter that belonged under the exclusive control of the executive branch, was disdainful of attempts by Congress to address the issue. Lindsay Graham: “I went down to Guantánamo with a group of senators shortly after it opened, and Dave Addington [Cheney's counsel] was also on the trip. I remember Dave had a copy of the Constitution he carried around with him. He took it out, and he said the Administration didn’t need congressional authorization for what it was doing. The President had the inherent authority to handle the prisoners any way he wanted. And I said, ‘That may be a good legal argument, but it’s not a good political argument. The more united the nation, the better it is for everyone.’ But Dave said, ‘ Thanks but no thanks.’ And after that we never had much dialogue.” Or, as Specter put it, “We still had discussions with the Department of Defense -- perhaps in part because the general counsel was interested in a judgeship -- but they didn’t go anywhere.”