My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite….

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down..

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full..

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before….

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions..

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria..

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without….

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separa….

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are..

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God..

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its n….

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible..

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power..

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of a….

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has arti….

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity..

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent..

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign ….

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head..

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must….