Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I love connecting with the fans. I love being on stage.

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Estragon: Nothing to be done.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.