People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

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

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