Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.