Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

We believe that peace is at hand.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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.