I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

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.

We are all the President's men.

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

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

We are doomed to coexist.