Dr. Kissinger wants to make clear that it is not unusual for him to be patted down during security screening at the airport. It is routine because he wears a brace on his foot and therefore cannot remove his shoes at the screening checkpoint. He would like to commend the professionalism and courtesy of the […]
I’d like to thank Roger Kimball for that generous introduction. Our friendship by now spans the decades since we met at Bill Buckley’s house. Bill infused the lives of all he touched. And he inspired a generation to define a new concept of conservatism for the contemporary era. It disputed not the need for progress […]
Mr. Vice President, State Councilor Tang, Ambassador Yang, Distinguished Guests, On behalf of the American delegation, thank you for this warm welcome, for your gracious words, and for the tremendous hospitality shown to our delegation. Hospitality was a striking attribute of China during President Nixon’s visit forty years ago. It remains a distinguishing feature of […]
Five years after my family left Fürth for New York, I returned to Germany with the American army. Afterwards as a student and then as a professor, I had the opportunity to reflect on questions of European order and Germany’s future, and subsequently in public service, I was able to work on issues to which […]
Providence smiled on America when Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President. The Vietnam war had divided the country. Watergate had demoralized the Executive Branch. The Cold War was still raging and, as the guardian of international order, America faced the nightmare of global chaos as its adversaries were emboldened and its allies […]
Thirty-four years ago, I had the honor of delivering the first Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture for the IISS. Alastair had been a friend, an occasional critic and a permanent inspiration. The annual conference opening today is a tribute to his vision. In 1976, I selected as a theme a quotation by Alastair, as follows: “Structural […]
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Lugar. It is a pleasure to meet again with this Committee, whose membership has substantially turned over since I last testified before it. Let me begin by placing the treaty into the context of arms control issues as they have evolved in the half-century that I have dealt […]
I am grateful for the opportunity to join you this evening, particularly to commemorate this auspicious occasion — the 35th anniversary of the establishment of International Energy Agency. Feeling like its father, I take special pride in being here. Much has changed since 1973, and I believe that the IEA now stands at a critical […]
When the Trilateral Commission was started in 1974, the world was essentially bipolar. The idea of David Rockefeller and his colleagues was to bring Japan into a dialogue with what was then the center of global thinking and power, namely, the North Atlantic area. China had just begun its relationship with the United States—it was […]
“The mark of a statesman is the determination to change the course of events, not just to describe them, and not simply to explain them.” President Nicolas Sarkozy has surely lived up to his own depiction of the qualities of a statesman, put forward in August 2007. He has not only explained events but changed […]