This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.