He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.
There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'
We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.
The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
