I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

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.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

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.