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

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

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.

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.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.