Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on either side. People come from all across the globe and want to live here and they want to work here and they want to invest here. And that's a good thing. And they make up this country. But as a people, we [americans] are not highly skilled in languages. We're not highly skilled in knowledge of other cultures. And that's a problem.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.