I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.

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

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

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

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

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

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.