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.

After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

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

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

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.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.