We Must Prepare For Everything.

Alliances And International Organizations Should Be Understood As Opportunities For Leadership And A Means To Expand Our Influence, Not As Constraints On Our Power.

I Think This Is The Biggest Lesson A President Or Any Of Us Who Has Responsibility To Govern Have To Learn: There Are Always Consequences To Actions That You Take. There Are Consequences To Inaction.

Politics Or Ideology Must Not Get In The Way Of Sound Planning.

Institutions Are Imperfect. Governments Surely Are. People Are.

I Would Not Trade America's Position In The World - Our Ledger, Our Debts And Assets - For Any Country In The World. There Isn't A Country In The World Even Close To America.