Questions matter......................

 

We knew intuitively that we were in disagreement on the answers, yet we soon found out that we asked the same questions.  And both Kraemer and I knew even as very young men that the questions matter.  So we used each other to hear ourselves talk and to force ourselves into defining ourselves.  Kraemer contributed more than anyone else to making me understand myself as a political maverick and forcing me to realize where my own concerns lay, precisely because they were not the same as his.  I, in turn, probably did the same service for him.  Our relationship was purely intellectual, though we respected each other and surely did not dislike each other.  But I don't think we would ever have asked: "What do you feel?"  The question was always: "And what do you think?"

-Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander: Memoirs, from his essay, The Man Who Invented Kissinger