History is the memory of States.

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

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.