The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
