The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep China from developing, because in some years, if they develop, they might be rich enough to challenge us, and adopt the principle that we will hold down any state that might in the future become strong. That would make us a world empire for which we wouldn't have the talents or the convictions.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Even paranoid people have enemies.