Leadership is solving problems.

Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And at the time change in regime as a policy came into effect in 1998, it was seen as the only way to compel Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

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