Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.