Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

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

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

There is no pure free-market economy.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

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