It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.