The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.