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

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

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.

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

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

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.