When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.