And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of...

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude...

In Washington…the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.