No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.