Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau.
I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
Who will observe the observers?
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
