Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.

I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.