Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the every vote counts.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.