Cardinal Dolan, thank you for your invitation to address this great gathering and for our long friendship. Your devout faith and irrepressible vitality are an inspiration to us all.
Friends, it is special for me to speak here today as we honor again an extraordinary human being, and a hugely successful American President.
Eulogy For Senator John McCain (as delivered) Our country has had the good fortune that, at times of national trial, a few great personalities have emerged to remind us of our essential unity and inspire us to fulfill our sustaining values. John McCain was one of those gifts of destiny. I met John for the […]
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Reed: Thank you for the honor of appearing before this Committee. You have asked me to comment on the international challenges facing the United States and “what from the standpoint of national strategy” we can do to best position ourselves “to succeed” in this “competitive global environment.” I shall do so […]
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in an occasion commemorating one of the most significant leaders of our period. Decisive, effervescent, courageous, loyal, she was dedicated to shaping the future rather than following the recommendations of focus groups. I met Lady Thatcher in the early 1970s, when she was serving as Minister of Education […]
I am honored to have been invited to participate in this first Nobel Peace Prize Forum. And I am delighted to share it with my friend Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose life and career in our adopted country have so closely paralleled my own. This occasion, in this tradition-laden room, inspires both nostalgia and gratitude. Nostalgia for […]
When the Tories unexpectedly won the 1970 election, Richard Nixon was so elated that he called nearly every hour to update me on the status of the returns. In terms of hierarchy, it should, of course, have happened the other way around. But I found myself in Mexico attending the 1970 World Cup without secure […]
In 2012, in a letter to Helmut Schmidt acknowledging an article he had sent me, I wrote: “Our long friendship is one of the pillars of my life.” We had cooperated closely over six decades: when we were both in government; even more frequently after we both left office; and exchanged ideas at conferences all […]
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Reed: Thank you for this invitation to address the Committee as a new Congress begins. The United States finds itself in a paradoxical situation. By any standard of national capacity, we are in a position to achieve our objectives and to shape international affairs. Yet as we look around the world, […]
It is a moving occasion to share this platform with two men who have been an inspiration to me for most of my political life. I went with George and Helmut through the Cold War; I admired their actions in the formation of the European Union and the strengthening of the Atlantic Alliance, and their […]