Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.