Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with China, and it led to a reaffirmation in the end, because nobody wanted a major confrontation with China to this principle of a "one China" policy within which Taiwan is finding a place now. Its own position has greatly improved since the Nixon policy. It is richer, it is stronger and it is participating in many international organizations.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

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.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.