Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.