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Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.