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

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

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

Even paranoid people have enemies.