Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.