The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

We are all the President's men.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.