You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.