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

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

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