The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

I grieve for every death.

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

You know who you belong to, Jack?”“Yeah.”“Yourself.”He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government