People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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.

Playing it safe might not have hurt anyone, but it wouldn’t have inspired many, either.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

What destroys one man preserves another.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

I started racing go karts when I was six. I just loved everything about racing. I was raised in a racing family. And I always wanted to race for a living at the highest level I could.