I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countri….

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries..

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order….

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual ….

Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience….

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as….

In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa refle….

Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a ….

This is awful. Do it again..

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West..

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise..

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before A….

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amoun….

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy..

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its i….

If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. ….

The issues are too important to be left for the voters..

Even a paranoid can have enemies..

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision..

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

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