Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

I think that's very important. He's not an ego person, or anything like that,

They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want this. When are sanctions going to be relieved and removed?' The issue is Iraqi noncompliance, and we should not allow them to move us off that issue.