The elderly are useless eaters.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

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.

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

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.