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.

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

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

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 defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.