The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.

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

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.