The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

The elderly are useless eaters.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.