If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they're nowhere to be seen ….

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages..

I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach o….

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory..

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a probl….

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security..

The Iraqi elections were an important first step..

The Russians are not going to do what we want them to do because we want them to do it..

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order..

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia..

Information technology has politicized the world's population..

America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world..

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy..

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together..

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually..

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with puris….

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms..

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so ….

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which….

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not..

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak..