We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

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.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.