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

I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

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.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

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

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.