The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.