In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.