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

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries