Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

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

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.

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.

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

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

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