Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.