For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
From Henry Kissinger
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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