The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

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