I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus