Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
No. That’s someone else’s business. Quagmire is – I don’t do quagmires.
Sausage making and policy-making shouldn’t be seen close-up.
I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it’s what I said.
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.
One thing appears reasonably certain, and that’s that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.
There are things that we know, and there are things that we don’t know. Then there are the things that we don’t even know that we don’t know. Those are the things that are the hardest.
I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
If you can’t solve a problem, make it bigger.
Being Vice President is difficult. Don’t make it tougher.
If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.
Control your time. If you’re working off your in-box, you’re working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last longer.
I’m glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.
There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that’s the way we live. We’re a free people. And that’s the wonderful thing about our country.
The United States isn’t going to do anything That it’s not capable of doing. And if we do something, We’ll be capable of doing it.