In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.

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.