Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.