Pragmatic Advisor Gifts

STRIP Hambone: Stolen laptops

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

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

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

"Nation-building never works."

Who will determine Venezuela's future?

UK/US Free Trade Deal

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

Mario Draghi

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

'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

US and the EU

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

We need a Europe of U-turns.

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

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.

SAGE mentality

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

GOP exaggerating scale of immigration, inflation and crime rates

"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?"

Rock and a Hard Place

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

'What I have to do first?!'

Government and Opposition

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

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

'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.'

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

"Our intelligence shows that everybody loves us."