I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.
There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing.
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.
No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.
I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.
The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.