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.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

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

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.

I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.