Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.
I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.