I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

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

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.