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.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.