The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

History is more or less bunk.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I am not a televangelist.