You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

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

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.

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

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

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