For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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