If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.