According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

My life consists of two things, Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe, Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.