Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.