You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president
You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.