I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Even paranoid people have enemies.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.