"I looked into his eyes and I didn't see his soul, but a cold-blooded killer. Gates to George W Bush, as quoted in "On…"

"Most governments lie to each other. That’s the way business gets done."

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades"

"Tough-minded, realistic, and very pro-American."

"„Es ist klar geworden, dass Amerikas zivile Einrichtungen für Diplomatie und Entwicklung schon viel zu lange chronisc…"

""Ich habe ihm in die Augen geschaut und sah nicht seine Seele, sondern einen kaltblütigen Killer." Robert Gates über …"

"Alabama is more than one of the States. It is another country. The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or …"

"I want to believe that it is sometimes our greatest and most difficult pain that leads us to our lives' purpose."

"... '. At the end of his , Hemingway writes of , “I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.” That line, and …"

"Don’t try to impose your will on a book before you know what it is—or what it needs. Writing is a kind of trust exerc…"