A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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.