Quote #58

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

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  1. Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the …
  2. You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
  3. When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'
  4. Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
  5. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
  6. To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
  7. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
  8. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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