We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

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.

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

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

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.

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

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.