The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

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.

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.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there.

I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.

Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

I'm not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but I know how to take an oath and uphold the law, and if you elect me I will uphold the law.