I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.