"Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

"How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?"

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood."