A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

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.

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