If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.