The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

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