The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than...
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it...
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace...
It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar...
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they...
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country...
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started...
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without...
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of...
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and...
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to...
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that...
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand...
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
