[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.