The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

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

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

We believe that peace is at hand.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific, and therefore, what do we do today to prevent that? And you, of course, will say that we will try to thwart any economic progress in China. If we engaged in such a policy, we would turn a billion-plus people into nationalist opponents of the United States.