Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.