It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.