For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

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.

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.

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.

If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.