The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

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.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Taigs don't pay rates.