For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.