At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.