It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.