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.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.