"The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership."

“You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.”

“I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.”

“By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.”

“Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.”

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

“The harder the life, the finer the person.”

“And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.”