If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

There is no such thing as society.