The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

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

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

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

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.