An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

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.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.