Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

We are doomed to coexist.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system