Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

We are not just any nation.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.