I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

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.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.