Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.