The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

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

But every day, too, we get one or two we can't find anywhere — truly missing people, whose absence has only now been discovered.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.