This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.