I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

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

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

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

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.