For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.