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

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

If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they're nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it's dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

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.

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.

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.