If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

As the family goes, so go the children.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.