A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

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

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.