NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

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

I believe our Presidents work hard and it's the loneliest job in the world.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.