The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

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

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

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

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

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