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.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.