If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.