The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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.

May you find grace to be great.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

I don't like people who hide things.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.