I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.