My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

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.

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

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

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