Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

Power is as power does.