Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.