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As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep America the most prosperous and free and powerful nation on earth.

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

I'm the only president you've got.