Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them.

I don't do quagmires.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.