My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

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

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

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.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.