While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive..

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt tha….

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life..

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global….

Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with ….

I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations..

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation….

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people..

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population..

There is no realism without an element of idealism..

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk o….

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,….

Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In….

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative..

Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-ba….

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions….

Even a paranoid can have enemies..

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

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours..

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision..