I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.

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

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.

Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.