Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them..

The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in t….

Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There are nuances of differences, b….

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solv….

I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep China from developing, because in some years, i….

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone..

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry..

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship..

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department..

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into….

Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads ….

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, ….

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security..

The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue….

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one..

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-orie….

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recogn….

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time..

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any ….

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side….

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war..