“Are you guys really arguing over where to eat dinner?""It's one of the more savage tools in the diplomatic arsenal.”
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
“an arsenal of serious tools that needed to be sworn at to work properly.”
“Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?”
“The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.”
“Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner.”