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

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

Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.