Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.