Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.