My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.