History is the memory of States.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

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

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.