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.

WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE!

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

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.

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

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.