The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

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