You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

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

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.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.