KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

In an outgoing transition, you start closing the books on today and start working for the history books.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

A mistake to be avoided is to appoint all your campaign operatives to government jobs. Campaigning and governing are different specialties.

In the art of governing you have to almost make love to your opponents and say “No” to some of your fiercest supporters. In campaigning it’s the exact opposite.

There is little leadership or followership on the Hill.

[Ideological] Purity is fine but it doesn’t win elections and is not a governing strategy. Compromise is required.

The key to Presidential debates is to rehearse those [dramatic] moments but don’t let them look scripted.

The margin of error when working on the White House staff is zero. Any mistake you make will wind up on the front page of the Washington Post.

A mistake to be avoided is to appoint all your campaign operatives to government jobs. Campaigning and governing are different specialties.

The margin of error when working on the White House staff is zero. Any mistake you make will wind up on the front page of the Washington Post.

In an outgoing transition, you start closing the books on today and start working for the history books.

The key to Presidential debates is to rehearse those [dramatic] moments but don’t let them look scripted.

There is little leadership or followership on the Hill.

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

In the art of governing you have to almost make love to your opponents and say “No” to some of your fiercest supporters. In campaigning it’s the exact opposite.

[Ideological] Purity is fine but it doesn’t win elections and is not a governing strategy. Compromise is required.