...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.