Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.