Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a….

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President F….

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written..

I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of ….

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes..

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself..

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately..

Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the f….

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach a….

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the….

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time..

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem..

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between ma….

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence ….

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states..

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest..

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premi….

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on an….

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the ann….

Let us fashion together a new world order..