Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.