Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

The elderly are useless eaters.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.