Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.