The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.