The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.