In Africa, you only have an independent media in only eight African countries, so there is very little transparency. The best gift that rich countries can give Africa is Radio Free Africa and Radio Free Africa will do for Africa what Radio Free Europe did for Europe.

I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

It helps me sleep at night.

As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.