No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

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.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.