To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

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.

Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.