Pragmatic Advisor Gifts

STRIP Hambone: Stolen laptops

'Winning is nice, but 'beat the spread' is a much more realistic objective.'

"Obama didn’t get to name a Supreme Court justice during his final year. So how come Trump does?"

"Nation-building never works."

"Oh, I'll be bi-partisan alright, punishing both sides of the aisle."

Who will determine Venezuela's future?

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

UK/US Free Trade Deal

Mario Draghi

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

We Tenatively Oppose War on Strictly Procedural Grounds

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

USAID Octopus Wrapping Around Globe

"Based on the feedback from advisers whom I haven't beheaded, all of my ideas are great."

G7 Summit Concern

'I look forward to a bigger and bolder vision in my 2nd term.'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

We need a Europe of U-turns.

US and the EU

SAGE mentality

Two Ways out of Iraq.

First you're a law student, then you're a lawyer, then you're a judge, then you're a politician, then you're a criminal.

US Credit: 'I'm down grading your credit rating...'

"It's really important to me, as an artist, to make you feel like drinking more than usual so I get hired back."

"Massive deficit spending, enormous Federal bailouts, open borders, ridiculous earmarks, pork for everybody, intervention all over the world.... Now, why didn't I think of that?"

GOP exaggerating scale of immigration, inflation and crime rates

'What I have to do first?!'

Rock and a Hard Place

'Yes, it's a stupid speech, Senator, but you've got to court the stupid VOTE.'

"Rudy has asked me to apologize, on his behalf, for your being offended..."

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'Staffers don't report we're managing decline. They report we met our targets and did out job!'

'Wait a minute -- you haven't said anything about a retirement age.'

Government and Opposition

"No, no, that’s in a bar, Mr. President — you can talk politics and religion here."