I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.