It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

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

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.