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

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.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

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

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.

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