The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

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

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.