I had an opportunity to express my views, yes. I agreed with the approach which we took, namely, to make a distinction between the loss of life of the Chinese pilot and our military operations outside territorial waters or territorial limits.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

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

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.