I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.

Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.

Differences can be a strength.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

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 don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.