Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

If a radical government emerges in Baghdad or if any part of Iraq becomes what Afghanistan used to be, a training ground for terrorists, then this will be a catastrophe for the Islamic world and for Europe, much as they may -- reluctant as they may be to admit it -- and eventually for us.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.