In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

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

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.