One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

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

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.