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

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.

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.

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

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Accents are very easy for me.