Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.