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

You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.