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I’ve never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan’s first view of China – so rich, so soft, so unaware.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.