History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

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.