» If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
» Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
» 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.
» For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
» The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
» I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
» The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
» The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
» There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
» Even a paranoid can have enemies.