Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

We believe that peace is at hand.