The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.