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

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.