We are all the President's men.

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

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

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.