You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

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

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.

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.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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