Most foreign policies that history has marked highly , in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
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.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
No one will ever win the batter of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
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.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
If you don't know where you are going every road will get you nowhere.
Accept everything about yourself -I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
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, who he assumes to have perfect vision.
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sing of duress.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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