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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.
I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.
Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.