90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.