In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.

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

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.