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.

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

I don't anxiously take in what people say about other people and judge them solely on that basis. I measure a person by how they treat me and what I see in their character.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.