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

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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

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.

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

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.