“Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master G”

“Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.”