I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

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

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.