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

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

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.