We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just read more

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.