If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unpre...
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shoul...
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.
I used to not back down from a challenge.
In America, small business is a big deal.
The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.
