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

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.