What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.