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.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

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

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

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.