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.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938.

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.