The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

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.

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

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.