I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.
When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions