Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.