“Never let your opponent see you cry.”

“All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.”

“Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer”

“There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”

“(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.”

“I think people still want to like Barack Obama but are a little puzzled and even, sometimes, disappointed to discover that actually, all things considered, they don't really like him quite as much as they would like to.”

“They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.”