The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.