If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.