No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.