After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)