The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

What we believe in is what works.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.