We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

It's important to Russia to be able to attract capital and to attract technology to develop their oil fields, their oil and gas fields, many of which suffer from lack of access to the very best technologies. And it's also important, and this has been the US government's view to have diversification of supply, diversification of supply roots and, of course, diversification in terms of alternative energy.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.