No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions.

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.