There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

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

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.