I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents.

I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents (during his 1968 presidential campaign)

By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

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