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

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

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