Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

If you're good at it, you can win.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.