More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

I am in control here, in the White House.

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.