America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

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

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.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.