The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.