We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I meet with the Chinese leaders periodically, and while I don't say they've endorsed the missile shield, it has not been in the forefront of their discussions.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.