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If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.