We will move as rapidly as we can to have a Cabinet in place by the time of the inauguration.

We will move as rapidly as we can to have a Cabinet in place by the time of the inauguration, ... Expect the first announcement soon.

It was awkward, while a contest was still under way, ... But those constraints are off and we're moving forward.

We're delighted to have this opportunity to begin to receive official support from the federal government for the Bush-Cheney transition. This has been a unique time in American political history,

Its stated policy,

[E]specially in the day and age we live in … the president of the United States needs to have his Constitutional powers unimpaired, if you will, in terms of the conduct of national-security policy.