What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.