America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

We believe that peace is at hand.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

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

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.