We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.