The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.