STEWART ALSOP

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.

There were the hawks and doves which we have everywhere else, a phrase which I unfortunately invented. I didn't invent it: I popularized it.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

Nixonphobia

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

In the Eisenhower days, for example, the "Top Secret" stamp was used very, very freely in order not to conceal information from the Soviets or from potential enemies, but simply to conceal it from the U.S. people and from the press. This is done again and again.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Nixonphobia

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

There were the hawks and doves which we have everywhere else, a phrase which I unfortunately invented. I didn't invent it: I popularized it.

In the Eisenhower days, for example, the "Top Secret" stamp was used very, very freely in order not to conceal information from the Soviets or from potential enemies, but simply to conceal it from the U.S. people and from the press. This is done again and again.

The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.