The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.