Henry Kissinger: “The United States has not faced a more diverse and complex array of crises since the end of the Second World War.”

One's effort should be not to break up Russia, but to retain Russia in the system in some fashion.

The United States cannot by itself solve every crisis that exists in the world, painful as these crises may be. And one of the philosophical questions that has to be answered is where we engage ourselves beyond moral condemnation and to…

For us, the problem is hegemony by any one country over Eurasia is a potential threat to our security.

When there is no flexibility and a contest occurs, we have to be aware of the fact that it would have catastrophic consequences for the world.