Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.