The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.