James A. Leach

“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing about the total insecurity of the American people.”

“Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.”

“The first rule of foreign policy is that you have to have a foreign policy.”

“Fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”

“There is nothing more American than wearying of war.”

“The great challenge for the twenty-first century is to evolve a new model of comity between an America seeking to sustain its preeminence and a China seeking to assert its new relevance.”

“In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.”

“In politics, it's what isn't said that is often most significant.”