I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

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

We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

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

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.