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.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.