QuoteLog

“Men of the pen have seldom any great skill in conquering kingdoms, but they have strong inclination to give advice.”

“The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear.”

“The last time the French asked for ‘more proof’ it came marching into Paris under a German flag.”

“You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.”

“And my question for the French and British is this: If the Security Council fails to constrain Saddam Hussein, what makes you think that it will constrain America? And how long can you demonize America as an imperialist power that doesn’t give a damn what other people think before it comes true? And do you want to live in that world?”

“A nation that can’t defend itself isn’t a nation anymore.”

“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. I look at what happened from 1975 to 1985, the first 10 years of the PC adoption cycle. There was huge over-investment in the early 1980s. In the late ’80s there was a huge crash, and the real build-out was from 1990 to 2000. With the Internet, we’re really 10 years into what will ultimately look like a 25-year cycle from invention to full implementation.”

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

“The yellow-ribbon era died with September 11: even if their television networks haven’t quite adjusted, Americans are tougher about these things; this is a country at war and one that understands how to absorb losses and setbacks.”

“Power corrupts, but so does weakness. And absolute weakness corrupts absolutely. We are now living through the most critical watershed of the postwar period, with enormous moral and strategic issues at stake, and the only answer many Europeans offer is to constrain and contain American power. So by default they end up on the side of Saddam, in an intellectually corrupt position.”

“If ever two people deserved to be together, for ever and ever, with no possibility of escape, those two people are Joe Millionaire and the Bachelorette.”

“I’ve made an embarrassing amount of money in this business for a borderline Marxist.”

“Chanting death to this and that is not the way to run a country. We have lost our prestige in the world. We are constantly falling behind.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“Those unconvinced by the existing evidence [against Iraq] will be convinced by nothing less than their actual use against our military or civilians. To hell with those people.”

“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”