This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.