Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you...

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

Learn to think continentally.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passi...

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.