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

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.

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.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Have a great relationship with your ex.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today, ' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.