History is the memory of States.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.