“The issues are too important to be left for the voters.”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

“Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable”

“If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America — and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six — is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.”

“In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.”