Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

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

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.