In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.