“After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, understanding, sympathy and support for which he had always craved. She inspired him, she calmed him and she enabled him for the first time in his life to believe in himself. Her sense of humor awoke his own, her natural gaiety lightened him. Their marriage was a rare union in which each complemented and enhanced the other.” MarriageRoyal Family Book:The Queen Mother: The Official Biography Source: The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.” TwoDifferentDoneJusticeTalkingHarmDifferent ThingsRetributionTwo Different Things Author:William Shawcross
“Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.” WorldMistakeCrimeExperienceCambodia Author:William Shawcross
“The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.” MadeImportantAmericaPowerfulErrorsDefeatCompromiseVietnamSecretaryKissingerHanoi Author:William Shawcross
“Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.” MenMeanEndsFactsRealityTogetherValuesPresidentLinksSecretaryPursuedUntrueUsing MeCounterproductiveKissingerPresident Nixon Author:William Shawcross
