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

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

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.

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.