Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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.

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.