I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

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

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.