People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing, ... We had feelings, but we had to put them in the background. We knew it was going to kill people right and left. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

Diplomacy: lying in state.