American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.