It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers.

All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently conf…

I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforesee…

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that t…

I want to share some thoughts with you before I answer your questions [...] First of all, I expect this conversation we're about to have to stay in the room. I…