Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.