But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.