I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

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

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

We believe that peace is at hand.

The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.