It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

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 love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

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.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...