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

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.

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

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.

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

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.