One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.