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

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

The elderly are useless eaters.

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

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

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.