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.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

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.

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

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.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.