Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.