Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

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

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.