The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.