If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?