What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.