World population needs to be decreased by 50%.
The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world’s trouble.
I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.
In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would – they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
I don’t read books, I write them.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.