How to Achieve The New World Order

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

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 would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.