I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.