Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.