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.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

I don't read books, I write them.