The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

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

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.

The Russians are not going to do what we want them to do because we want them to do it.

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.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.