This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

Being on the inside could be an addiction

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

Better to wait actively than passively.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.