I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.