The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.

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

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.