The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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.