The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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.

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.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.