We believe that peace is at hand.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

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

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

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.