Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

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

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.