The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

If you judge, investigate.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

A witty saying proves nothing.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

History is more or less bunk.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.