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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.
With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.