I don't read books, I write them..

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into whic….

The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and ….

I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously the international sys….

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind..

Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with China, and it led to a reaffirmat….

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify..

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did..

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it..

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneur….

In crises the most daring course is often safest..

A little uncertainty is good for everyone..

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, wi….

Even paranoid people have enemies..

The elderly are useless eaters..

We are doomed to coexist..

China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, w….

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac..

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded..

History is the memory of States..

The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before….