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

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

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.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.