In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.