Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.