A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

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.

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.