One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.