A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.