You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
Listen more often than you speak.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.