University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.