America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.

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.

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.

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.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

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.