NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

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

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

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.