Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.