Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been.
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.