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

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.

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.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

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.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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