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

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

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

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

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