The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

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.

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.