The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

This is awful. Do it again.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.