Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

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

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.