The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.