James A. Leach

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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