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

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

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.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.