Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.