They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the annexation of Taiwan by Japan. If the United States had suddenly declared Taiwan as a separate state - for which we would have had no support among other nations - the consequences would have been giving up our relationship with China and committing ourselves to a long-term conflict with China.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.