Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.

There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its development, or whether it is educated and involved in the ways of the world - more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward looking.