More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.