Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

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

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.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.