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

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

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.

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

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

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

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