We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.