To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.

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.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.