The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

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.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.