Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
A crony is a presidential advisor you don't like.
Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
I have a philanthropy advisor, Hari Menon, who was earlier at the Gates Foundation.
Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard choice for Mr. [Donald] Trump to make because General [Mike] Flynn he's very comfortable with.
My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
I don't really have a mentor.
As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.
Fear is not the best advisor.
My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
