The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I had an opportunity to express my views, yes. I agreed with the approach which we took, namely, to make a distinction between the loss of life of the Chinese pilot and our military operations outside territorial waters or territorial limits.

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.