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.

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

I don't do quagmires.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

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