University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

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

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.