Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.