If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.

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

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.

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.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.