The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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.

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer - I rewrote my own destiny.

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

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When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.