This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.