The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

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.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

History is more or less bunk.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Industry need not wish.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

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

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

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

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?