When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

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

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.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

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

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.