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

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.