The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.

There is no perfection in humanity.

You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.