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

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

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.

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

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.