He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

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.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

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.

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

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.