Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There are nuances of differences, but not fundamental differences. I think that President Bush was heading in this direction, and I have no doubt that he will again wind up in this position. But right now he has to be preoccupied with the atrocity committed in New York and Washington.

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.