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.

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

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

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.