University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

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

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

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.