Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.