Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

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

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.