The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously..

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they….

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, b….

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless..

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears..

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions….

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, the….

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapon….

Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your vario….

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience,….

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose..

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end..

In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individua….

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral..

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order..

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault..

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strate….

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end wi….

If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, no….

For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there was disagree….

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent..