Quote

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

Sometimes we make a mistake. Don't treat us as the enemy.