It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

Uganda's budget is 40 percent aid-dependent. Ghana's budget is 50 percent aid-dependent. Even if you cancel the debt, you don't eliminate that aid dependency. This is what I mean by getting to the fundamental root causes of the problem. Government, the state sectors in many African countries need to be slashed so that, you know, you put a greater deal of reliance on the private sector. The private sector is the engine of growth. Africa's economy needs to grow but they're not growing.

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.