"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

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.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

With the press there is no "off the record.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.