If You Try To Please Everybody, Somebody's

Don't Speak Ill Of Your Predecessors Or Successors. You Didn't Walk In Their Shoes.

They Will Do More Whether We Do What We're Doing Or Whether We Don't Do What We're Doing. And The Idea That You Could Appease Them [terrorists] By Stopping Doing What We're Doing Or Some Implication That By Doing What We're Doing We're Inciting Them To Attack Us Is Just Utter Nonsense. It's Just - It's Kind Of Like Feeding An Alligator, Hoping It Eats You Last.

Death Has A Tendency To Encourage A Depressing View Of War.

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.

Listening To Both Sides Does Not Necessarily Bring About A Correct Judgment.