I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
“As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.”
“All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.”