I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

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