I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani.

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

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

I believe that the Iraqis have an opportunity now, without Saddam Hussein there, to build the first multiconfessional Arab democracy in the Middle East. And that will make for a different kind of Middle East. And these things take time. History has a long arc, not a short one. And there are going to be ups and downs, and it is going to take patience by the United States and by Iraq's neighbors to help the Iraqis to do that. But if they succeed, it'll transform the Middle East, and that's worth doing.