Henry Kissinger: “I think we need a strong State Department.”

One's effort should be not to break up Russia, but to retain Russia in the system in some fashion.

If one negotiates a freeze of the existing situation, one has thereby legitimized a Korean military capability.

One cannot accept the notion that Russia has a right to alter the shape of the Ukraine by its own unilateral position.

The concern I had with the Iranian agreement was that it legitimized the eventual emergence of Iran as a nuclear power.