The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.