Favorite Quotes:

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

~Abraham Lincoln

If we can gain something by being honest, we will be it, and if we have to deceive, we will be cheats.

- Frederick II

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

- Henry Kissinger