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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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