Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

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

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.