Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.

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

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

We believe that peace is at hand.