 You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. |
| University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. |
| In crises the most daring course is often safest. |
| Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. |
| There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. |
| We are all the President's men. |
| The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. |
| No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
| I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. |
| If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. |
| Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. |
| For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. |
| Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. |
