Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Israel is not an aviary.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Dylan Jerome, " the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

All variables are independent.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.