To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

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.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.