The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.

[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.

What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.