The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

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.

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

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.