If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.