After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.

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

The Russians are not going to do what we want them to do because we want them to do it.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.