The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

The elderly are useless eaters.

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

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

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

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.