“People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.”

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

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

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

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

“No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.”

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”