Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

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