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

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.