If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they're nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it's dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

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.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

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