I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

I love being in the United States Senate.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

If you judge, investigate.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

We make war that we may live in peace.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.