The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

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

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.