Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

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