Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

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

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

The elderly are useless eaters.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

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.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.