I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep China from developing, because in some years, if they develop, they might be rich enough to challenge us, and adopt the principle that we will hold down any state that might in the future become strong. That would make us a world empire for which we wouldn't have the talents or the convictions.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

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