"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"War is the business of barbarians."

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

"Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations."

"Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us."