If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the annexation of Taiwan by Japan. If the United States had suddenly declared Taiwan as a separate state - for which we would have had no support among other nations - the consequences would have been giving up our relationship with China and committing ourselves to a long-term conflict with China.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.