I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

And change isn't destruction. It's just change.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.