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

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.