as we enact these reforms, we must exercise some care in avoiding unforeseen consequences.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I should sometimes with pleasure resign the translations to others, that I might be more in the actual exercise of the ministry.

The exercise has slowed down. It's not going on as we had expected. In some areas, the warriors have completely refused to hand over their guns voluntarily to the army and the disarmament committees.

American abdication in Iraq will have global consequences if a fundamentalist radical state were to emerge in Baghdad.