Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.