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

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Even paranoid people have enemies.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

The elderly are useless eaters.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.