The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Tag: Henry Kissinger
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.