Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.