“I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.”
“Nothing ever gets settled in this town.. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.”
“If there are ways in which we can make Qaddafi nervous, why shouldn't we? That is not deceiving you, but just using your predictable tendencies to report things that we try to keep secret.”