Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

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

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

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

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

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.