The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.