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

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

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

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.

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

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).