The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.

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.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

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