He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides..

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table..

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists..

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people..

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and und….

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which….

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%..

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action..

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very hi….

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy..

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere..

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way..

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I….

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people..

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it..

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest..

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brain….

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better..

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it..

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller..

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prison….