Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

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

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.