God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

I believe that women will lead the democracy movement.

Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.