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

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.