When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.