Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.