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

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 were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

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

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.