Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.