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.

With the press there is no "off the record.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

The success of an organization will depend on the people you surround yourself with.

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.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."